The security service of Ukraine informs that today there is reason for opening criminal cases regarding the leadership of the Communist party of Ukraine. before the Ministry of justice of Ukraine appealed to the SBU regarding the verification of information on the election of the leader Petro Symonenko in the Bureau of the plenary session of the Communist party. "I think the hearing will be held. And today there are grounds to initiate a criminal case And to investigate the facts, who have the opportunity to speak about the involvement of the top management to the illegal activity, " he said at a press conference on Wednesday SBU spokeswoman Elena Gitlyanskaya, answering the question of whether the Ministry of the proceedings regarding the leadership of the Communist party. After the coup in Ukraine was dissolved parliamentary faction of the Communist party of Ukraine, the leader of which were critical about the special operations security forces in the East. For the same reason, the authorities in the past year started to ban the Communist party. In early may of last year Symonenko said that if he was the head of the country, " immediately withdrew all troops from the Eastern regions of the country, calling a special operation involving the army to war against the people. then at that time the Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has applied to the Ministry of justice with a request to test the activity of the CPU to determine if any of belonging to interact with the militia And in case of confirmation of this without delay to have an impact on its prohibition. Justice Minister Pavel Petrenko 8 July 2014 said about filing office in the District administrative court of Kiev lawsuit to ban the Communist party of Ukraine.